Paolo Gurisatti

Venice Manufacturing District Outlook

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Industrial Economist, Entrepreneur and Local Development Agent. Since 1979 he has been concerned with the following topics:
Small Business (SMEs competitiveness at an industrial scale)
Industrial Districts and Clusters (competitiveness of localised networks of SMEs and development of new market systems)
Local Development (constituency as the result of a cognitive game, involving different agents at the local level - territory productivity, sustainability and "productive" identity)
Innovation (Social Construction of Technology by the means of public policies, innovative networking and generative relationships).

Executive Summary – Vicenza is a beautiful town, with a magnificent piazza and basilica. Recently the local government set up a successful exibition (From Raffaello to Picasso), visited by more than 250.000 people. The author argues that such a success is in line with an emerging identity of Vicenza as “città per vecchi” (an attractive […]